Available supervisors

Andy is Assistant Director at NHS Elect and works across the AEC and Acute Frailty Networks. Andy has over 20 years’ experience in Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute Medicine and Critical Care within the NHS and internationally.

Claire has been working for NHS Elect since April 2023 as Assistant Director, Clinical Lead for Digital Proficiency Frameworks. She qualified at Manchester University as a Registered General Nurse 2003 with a BSC (Hons) in Nursing Studies.

Claire has spent much of her career within Critical Care working predominately in operational leadership, education, and development. She has expertise in quality improvement and implementation of change at trust and system level.

Claire has provided clinical leadership to a national project to update and deliver national digital critical care passports to support the COVID healthcare delivery plan, on behalf of Health Education England. As clinical lead, she also led digitisation and implementation of the national pilot of clinical digital proficiencies for adult critical care nursing. This work has required engagement and collaboration with national partners and stakeholders, and Trusts throughout the four nations and arm-length bodies. Claire has an interest in Human Factors and is passionate about supporting teams within the NHS to deliver safe and effective care.

Deborah Thompson MSC, Dip HE, RGN is Managing Director at NHS Elect covering Improvement Networks. This involves leading the design and delivery of two large-scale improvement programmes across the UK; The Ambulatory Emergency Care Network and Acute Frailty Network.

In addition, she also designs bespoke programme support and expertise to frontline teams to improve emergency care. Deborah has 37 years’ experience as a clinician and manager in NHS acute services.

Julie Combes, RSCN, BSc (hon), MA Clin Ed, FHEA is Deputy Director at NHS Elect, leading implementation of workforce and training innovations across healthcare systems. Julie started working in the NHS in 2000 where she began her NHS career as a paediatric intensive care nurse. Since 2010 Julie has been involved in workforce education and training undertaking senior leadership roles that support and advise Health and care providers locally, regionally and nationally more recently working for Health Education England. She has special interest and expertise in workforce redesign and planning, inter professional education, technology enhanced learning and human factors and ergonomics. She is an associate member of Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, working in partnership to integrate human factors science into healthcare. She strives to lead by creating a positive, collaborative culture through the development of a system that supports the workforce to achieve their potential.

Kay Elliott is an Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist at Dorset County Hospital. Most of her career has been within the cardiac speciality; initially in the coronary care setting and then moving to set up services in the community to help implement the National service framework for coronary heart disease. As part of this role, she worked with a local university to develop and deliver a community cardiac module.

She undertook the role of community matron for a while and then relocated to Dorset in 2006 to set up the Arrhythmia nursing service. Her dedication to advancing cardiovascular care led her to take on a secondment with the British Heart Foundation (2012-2016) as a Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Clinical Development Coordinator. This post involved setting up and delivering CVD education in Primary Care. She returned to the Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist role in 2016 and this role includes nurse-led clinics, DC Cardioversion, providing educational sessions, contributing to a patient support group and providing peer support.

She is an experienced non-medical prescriber and has written for publication successfully. She has experience in setting up a number of new services and has a keen interest in designing and delivering education programmes and service development. She has been with NHS Elect since May 2022 and is enthusiastic about providing support through clinical supervision. She strongly believes that the support offered through clinical supervision can help one find a way forward despite often challenging scenarios.

Lisa has 30 years’ experience in the NHS, and is an experienced leader of transformational change and improvement. Prior to joining NHS Elect as a Programme Director in 2013, Lisa held a variety of executive director roles in acute Trusts and the charitable sector.

Description goes heLizzie has had the privilege of being a nurse and ACP over the last 28 years. A vocation and passion, with a burning ambition to make it a kind, brave and inspirational career choice for all of those that follow. She adored general training and differing specialities but fell in love with Emergency Care. A spell in Critical Care truly embedded much of her knowledge and care, then working within Anaesthetic Pre-assessment and Site Management meant the opportunity to train in advanced practice. Lizzie took a Matron’s post in UEC in North Yorkshire, and is now Deputy Associate Director of Nursing for UEC at the largest single site ED in the North East. Lizzie has a passion and desire to share her experience in the hope it helps other’s to feel safe, flourish and grow. re

Lydia is an experienced workforce specialist with expertise in clinical education. She has a background as a paediatric intensive care nurse, and extensive experience in NHS hospital trusts, international healthcare systems, academic health science partnerships, and arms-length bodies.

Lydia has designed and delivered interprofessional education, developed regional education networks, and provided system-level leadership for simulation-based education and cancer workforce transformation.

In her current role, Lydia addresses workforce and education challenges by working in partnership with stakeholders in national and regional NHS systems, commissioners, and professional bodies.

Lydia is skilled at facilitating groups and supporting teams to create solutions and resolve conflict. She is a qualified mediator with the International Mediation Institute, focused on workplace and interpersonal conflict.

Lydia completed a Master of Arts in Clinical Education at King’s College London, and specialises in collaborative practice, interprofessional education, team training, human factors and ergonomics. Lydia has previously served as President of the Pediatric Simulation Society (2020-21) and member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors (2017-2022).

Mandy is Deputy Director and provides QI support to teams in the Acute Frailty, Specialised Clinical Frailty, and Virtual Wards. She trained at St Thomas’ Hospital and has over 30 years' experience in healthcare.

Rob’s professional background is in nursing and he has held a variety of clinical management roles. He works as a Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner whilst also retaining an active interest in academic research, education and the development of people. Rob enjoys the opportunity and challenge of working with individuals to improve their performance by supporting them through complex clinical decision making to achieve safe and effective clinical outcomes and manage complete episodes of care, and to facilitate improvements for patients.